THE WAKING DREAM: Fantasy and the Surreal in Graphic Art 1450 - 1900 by LUCIE-SMITH, Edward - introduction and commentries by; notes on the plates by Aline JACQUIOT - 1975

New York, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf first American edition - hard cover in dust jacket The nightmare visions of Breughel, Fuseli, Goya and Dore; the elaborate allegories of Durer; the satirical grotesqueries of Hogarth; the powerful Biblical evocations of Blake; the romantic paintings of Delacroix and Moreau - all these, and the engravings of less well known artists reproduced here reveal the work of the great surrealists. (edit.) 307 x 247mm., pp. 218, with 216 b/w plates, index of Plates. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, slight creasing top spine - no tears or chips. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0394497589